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Majestic monsters: Tornadoes captured over the years

Taken on August 28, 1884, this is the oldest known footage of a tornado. It was taken in South Dakota, 22 miles southwest of Howard.

This photo was taken on July 8, 1927 in Vulcan, Alberta, Canada. Here you can see the tornado closing in on the city.

This photo was taken on May 31, 1949 in Manhattan, Kansas.

On June 5, 1996 a tornado hit Enid, Oklahoma. This classic photograph shows a tornado in its mature stage.

This photo was taken on September 10, 1969. NOAA did not share any further information about this photo.

Taken on May 24, 1973, this photo was the first footage taken using the NSSL doppler radar and NSSL chase personnel. This tornado was in its early stage of formation in Union City, Oklahoma.

This photo was taken on May 22, 1981 in Cordell, Oklahoma. NOAA did not share any further information about this photo.

This photo is part of the footage taken during a joint project between NSSL and Mississippi State University called "Sound Chase". The tornado, which can be seen here dying out, hit Cordell, Oklahoma on May 22, 1981.

This is footage of the Alfalfa Tornado that hit Alexandria, Louisiana on May 22, 1981.

This is a photo of a funnel cloud taken during the Project Vortex in Northern Texas on May 29, 1994.

This is a photo of The Dimmitt Tornado taken during the Project Vortex in South Dimmit, Texas on June 2, 1995.

This is photo #2 of the sequence showing the F5 Oklahoma City tornado that landed on May 3, 1999 after the F3 tornado. You can see it forming while the F3 is in circulation. This is known as a occluded mesocyclone tornado.

This is photo #1 of the sequence. It shows a F3 Oklahoma City tornado forming while another circulation was beginning to form as well on May 3, 1999.

In Miami, FL on August 12, 2003 a waterspout came ashore as a F0 tornado.

This is a photo of the Doppler on Wheels (owned by the Center for Severe Weather Research) was taken on May 24, 2004.

This was from NOAA. I've never seen three water spouts but a lot of old salts have.

This tornado over the plains was one of many spawned during a massive outbreak stretching from eastern Colorado to Oklahoma on May 23-May 24.

A tornado in LaGrange, Wyoming on June 5, 2009.

This photo was taken in LaGrange, Wyoming on June 5, 2009.

A rare photograph of two tornadoes over the Great Plains. United States, Western.

This photo was taken on December 20, 2010. NOAA did not share any further information about this photo.

This photo was taken on December 20, 2010. NOAA did not share any further information about this photo.

NOAA did not provide any information on this photo.

NOAA did not provide any information about this footage, but it's a great photo nonetheless.

This footage shows a tornado and it's rain and mist.

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